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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT AVENUES IN HORTICULTURE

Horticulture is the science which is associated with the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, plantation crops, tuber crops, medicinal and aromatic plants and post harvest technology their of. It plays an important role in agricultural economy in India. Horticultural crops being more productive, man-days generative and protective to health, in recent years, the marketing demand for them has risen tremendously. Horticulture has developed as a powerful venture in agri-economic scenario of the country. To make this venture, more sound in time scale, in view of generating man power well versed in the field of horticulture, education avenues have been opened and so also the employment avenues.

Education avenues: The post graduation and PhD degree programmes in horticulture are offered in almost all agri-varsities of the country (Table1). However, some agri-varsities also offer undergraduate degree programme in horticulture.

Each and every state agricultural university (SAU) has its own pattern of admission to various degree programmes based either on merit, entrance examination, payment, counseling or all. Along with, for admission to 15 % of total intake capacity in undergraduate degree programme and for 25 % of total intake capacity in PG programme in Says, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Pusa, New Delhi-110 012, organizes separate entrance examination in the name of AIEEA-UG and AIEEA-PG every year. The successful candidates are recommended for admission to UG and PG programmes to various SAUs as per their merit and choice.

Eligibility for admission and syllabus for competitive examination:Undergraduate degree programme- Any Indian citizen of 17-23 years age is considered eligible for admission. Candidate should have passed 10+2 (Intermediate/ Senior secondary examination) with physics, chemistry, biology/ mathematics/ agriculture/ home science subjects combination. Candidates belonging to general category should have minimum 50 % marks and those belonging to scheduled caste/ scheduled tribe, physically handicapped category 40 % to be considered eligible for the AIEEA-UG examination conducted by ICAR, Pusa, New Delhi. In this examination questions are asked from two streams; Stream A and Stream B. Under Stream A questions from physics, chemistry and agriculture/biology subjects are asked, whereas, under Stream B questions from physics, chemistry and mathematics subjects are asked. The examination is of 2.30 hrs duration consisting of multiple choice type 60 questions from physics, 60 questions from chemistry and 60 questions from agriculture/ biology/ mathematics. In all 180 questions are to be attempted. Each question carries 4 marks. There is provision of negative marking in examination. For each correct answer 4 marks is awarded and for each incorrect answer one mark is deducted from total score. Candidates opting A stream in examination are considered eligible for admission to UG degree programme in SAUs in Horticulture, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery science, Home science, Sericulture, Biotechnology and Food science and technology. Those opting B stream in examination are considered eligible for admission to Agriculture engineering, dairy technology, Food Science, and Agricultural marketing, banking & cooperation.

The author is serving as Associate Professor, Fruit Science at the College of Horticulture and Forestry, Under Maharana Pratap University and Technology at Jhalarapatan Campus, Jhalawar- 326 023 (Raj.).